Dorothy Davenport
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Dorothy Davenport (March 13, 1895 – October 12, 1977) was an American actress, screenwriter, film director, and producer who appeared in silent film for Biograph Studios under the direction of D.W. Griffith.
While filming on location in Oregon for The Valley of the Giants (1919), Wallace Reid was injured in a train wreck. As a remedy for the pain from this injury, studio doctors administered large doses of morphine to Reid to which he became addicted. Reid's health slowly grew worse over the next few years, and he died of the addiction in 1923. After Reid's death, Davenport and Thomas Ince co-produced the film Human Wreckage (1923) with James Kirkwood, Sr., Bessie Love and Lucille Ricksen, a film that dealt with the dangers of narcotics addiction. Davenport took Human Wreckage on a roadshow engagement, followed up with another "social conscience" picture about excessive mother-love called Broken Laws in 1924, again billed as "Mrs. Wallace Reid" to capitalize on her husband's notorious death. She then produced The Red Kimona (1925) about white slavery. On screen she opens the film in silent narration or prologue. The details of the latter film were so realistic that Davenport was successfully sued.
She would later direct Linda (1929), Sucker Money (1933), Road to Ruin (1934), and The Woman Condemned (1934) and worked as a producer, writer, and dialogue director. Among her last credits are co-author of the screenplay for Footsteps in the Fog (1955), and as dialogue director for The First Traveling Saleslady (1956) with Ginger Rogers.
She and husband Wallace Reid had two children. She was married to him until his death on January 18, 1923. She never remarried. Dorothy Davenport died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in 1977 in Woodland Hills, California. She is interred with her husband in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.
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Como Actor/Actriz
Hellship Bronson
Mrs. Bronson
The Red Kimona
Woman Telling the Story (uncredited)
The Oath and the Man
Aristocrat
The Road to Ruin
Mrs. Merrill (uncredited)
The Unattainable
Bessie Gale
Broken Laws
Joan Allen
The Devil's Bondwoman
Beverly Hope
'Cross the Mexican Line
Dorothy West
The Unknown
Nancy Preston
Man Hunt
Mrs. Scott
Pierre of the North
Mary McKenzie - the Factor's Daughter
A Yoke of Gold
Carner
Doctor Neighbor
Hazel Rogers
The Golden Supper
Flower Girl
A Brave Little Woman
Clara Lyttell
The Way of the World
Beatrice Farley
Her Indian Hero
Veda Mead
The Fighting Chance
Leila Mortimer
Mothers of Men
Clara Madison
The Heart of the Hills
The Government Detective
Barriers of Society
Martha Gorham
His Only Son
Jessie Carter
Human Wreckage
Ethel MacFarland
The Den of Thieves
Dorothy
Black Friday
Elionor Rossitor
The Spider and Her Web
The Test of Manhood
Ethel Crandall
The Satin Woman
Mrs. Jean Taylor (as Mrs. Wallace Reid)
The Revelation
Mrs. Burns
Treason
Luella Brysk
Detrás de Cámaras
Impact
Escritor
Haunted House
Guionista
Footsteps in the Fog
Guionista
Linda
Director
Redhead
Guionista
Prison Break
Guionista
Rhubarb
Guionista
The Red Kimona
Director, Escritor, Productor
Redhead
Productor
Sucker Money
Director
The Woman Condemned
Director
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Guionista
The Road to Ruin
Director, Escritor
Honeymoon Limited
Productor, Guionista
A Bride for Henry
Productor
The Old Swimmin' Hole
Escritor
Drums of the Desert
Guionista
Curley
Historia
Tomboy
Historia
The Racing Strain
Historia
On the Spot
Guionista
Human Wreckage
Productor, Escritor, Director
Women Must Dress
Historia, Productor
Paradise Isle
Productor